Othel Ernest Johnson, 40, was last officially seen in Belen, Valencia County, New Mexico, on January 1, 1956. He was about six feet tall, slender, with brown hair and brown eyes, and left behind a wife, Nancy Virginia Johnson, and two children. The Valencia County Sheriff’s Office holds the case file.

Some accounts place his disappearance around 1950, reportedly soon after a divorce, while the official record lists 1956; his mother’s 1956 obituary names him as a surviving son, a detail that deepens the inconsistency. His case was entered into NamUs on March 15, 2016.

Very little else is publicly known about circumstances or leads. Did anyone in or near Belen in the 1950s have contact with Othel or remember his movements around 1950–1956?